- Genre:young adult fiction
- Sub-genre:Action & Adventure / General
- Age Range (years):13 and up
- Language:English
- Pages:383
- eBook ISBN:9798317812775
Book details
Overview
Two lifelong friends growing up in Southeast Texas during the 1960's. They were poor and worked on farms. One boy spent a summer at the Navajo Reservation in Kayenta Arizona and during that stay, he was invited to participate in the training given to all Navajo teenagers on the traditions and history of the tribe. What he learned while there, changed the way he thought about others. He witnessed a crime that he and his friend helped solve and became involved in solving another crime back home.
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The book looks at a time when integration was being introduced into Texas. Both boys came from a controlled environment that was segregated by race, position, and religion. It was controlled by the company, and it was all that they knew. They thought that was the norm. Every boy and girl in the town had the same history and similar backgrounds. But once the school was mandated to accept integration and brought in those kids from other schools, the boys questioned their perceived norms and began to see the bigger world. In their protected world of company life, there was no crime. In the real world, there was crime and bad people. Trust was not a given.
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